Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-18
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A London newspaper man who IS very
close 10 tn e DOE Carte management
writes me that he believes Gilbert aud
Sullivan propose 10 give both London and
New York 8 complete surprise in the next
opera, which be declares viii DC on en-
American subject. He says the AMERICAN
crszs has now been rampant in London
for nearly year, and that Buffalo BiIrs
appearance has given it marvellous life
and the widest kind Of acceptance. The
writer asserts that the craze is Doee gen
erai than the r. sthetiC CraZ5 and thai its
manifestations are quite as numerous and
eccentric. Mr., Gilbert noticed the be-
ginning of this queer and unexpected de-
yelopment Of public taste last Ws1teT,
and when Henry Irving told him on his
return from the pleasure trip the TRACE
dian made to America last fall, CT Buffalo
BiIl'S plan to come to England, Gilbert
determined to take the cowboys, the
scouts, the American Indian and the n
dian maiden for his next theme, espeCi-
ally as Irving was enthusiastic in
his description Of the wild
west. Indeed Irving talked with
such enthusiasm to g journalist in LOr-
con who met him shortly after his arrival,
that his words we're printed and this
printed interview undoubtedly had the
foundation Of Buffalo Bill's wonderful
success on the other side. The events of
the past year have certainly given greater
value to Mr.. Gilbert's subject than he
possibly could have hoped for, and his
quaint manifestations of wild western
ideas and his skiliful grGspiDg of wild
western pictures will be awaited with il
teTest and impotence both i'll London and
New York.
There seems to be no doubt that the
new Gilbert and Sullivan opera, which is
10 be ready ia October, will 90 to the
Casino. IL is the only available house in
New York, and as the Casino management
is therefore in position TO dictate terms
the outside rights in large cities will
also be fastened on by them, instead Of
being divided between Messrs. McCunee
and StetsOn.
Henry c. Abbey, who is 81 present in
London, has written that he will be back
in New York early IN August. Whether
or not Mr.. Abbey will have shy great
dramatic or operate attractions touriE q
the United States next season is not yet
very clear No defaite contract with
Nilsson has yet been announced and TIE
announcement with Jane Hading, Nine.
BernhaTdt's rivs! and probable successor
in Paris, is off for the present at least, as
Hading's husband says he won't let her
come TO America, and husbands in France
seem TO be able 10 enforce their wishes.
Mr.. Abbeyis return here is in
terestiDg because it will then become
known what the immediate future of
Wallsck's Theatre is likely to be. As is
now pretty widely known, Mr.. Abby IS
in practically complete control of this
historical house. The theatre, meaning
by that the organization, has had three
homes during nearly half century of
existence, moving uptown with the ad-
vancing centre of population and three
generations of the WsIlaCk family have
been identified with the for
tunes. II is rich in traditions
and its programmes which are to
be found, bound in dusty volumes in the
theateT office and extending back two
score of years, make up good portion Of
the history of the American stage during
that period, but whatever It's history or
the sentiment attached to its brilliant
records may be, and whatever its present
capabilities and possibilities are, Mr..
Abbey is the manager of them
and cobWebs and musty -eminis.
cences will all be swept away
with the Introduction of his nineteenth
century methods. There were 8 couple
of thousand plays, the accommodations of
thirty years, sent back to their anxious
owners before the manager of Bernhard
and Patti stepped into the house, and
other accommodations will DOUBTLESS fol-
| low.
| Wallack's theater-tbe name will be
retsiued under the provisions Of the con-
tract-Wlu, therefore, start fair ana best